How to Use afterlife in a Sentence

afterlife

noun

• Does he believe in an afterlife?
• These kinds of grave goods were buried with the dead in the hopes that they could be used in the afterlife.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Jan. 2024
• King Tut was buried with a passel of the seeds, to spice up the afterlife.
  — Taras Grescoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2021
• When the ritual concludes, the body is ready for the earth, the soul for the afterlife.
  — Daniel Burke, CNN, 13 Nov. 2020
• He’s trapped not just in the afterlife but in the non-stop theatre of his own mind.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2024
• Leave it to David Bowie to make his presence known in the afterlife.
  — Fred Sahai, Billboard, 3 May 2022
• Beer was even a part of the afterlife, or at least Egyptians hoped so.
  — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• What is the afterlife of this play when Trump is no longer in office?
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2020
• Those experts are the cast of CBS' Ghosts, who have some knowledge of what goes on in the afterlife.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 6 Oct. 2022
• Lamps were sometimes buried with the dead to light their way into the afterlife.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2021
• Still, Waugh, who died in 1966, might have been shocked by the next stage in this zombie afterlife.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• This gives them all hope that death isn’t the end, and that The Midnight Club will continue even in the afterlife.
  — Amy MacKelden, ELLE, 16 Oct. 2022
• Dave Itzkoff on the strange afterlife of George Carlin.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2022
• In the Islamic faith, the 40th day after a death marks the deceased’s soul passing from the earth to the afterlife.
  — Sara Mhaidli, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2022
• Like stories about the afterlife, stories about the end of the world can relieve fears of the unknown.
  — Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2020
• But that's starting to change, from video games about the afterlife to TV shows that help prepare you to pass.
  — Sara M Moniuszko, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2022
• Given its brief existence, the life of the show has also been very much about the afterlife of the show.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024
• This is what businesses like Shein hope for us: the afterlife is a store.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 July 2022
• The fabric of human life and afterlife were, at many times, the very things Dean and Sam gave their blood, sweat, lives and tears to save.
  — Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, 20 Nov. 2020
• The animals may have been buried to recreate the gardens for the deceased in the afterlife.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• What’s a wedding night in the afterlife without a few frights?
  — Tatiana Tenreyro, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2024
• When Tony Stark and Black Widow are keeping us protected in the afterlife37.
  — Kori Williams, Seventeen, 20 Apr. 2020
• While Judaism posits belief in the afterlife, this world, the world of the living, is paramount.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• As the series progressed, Doug took on an afterlife of his own.
  — Jessica Derschowitz, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2021
• Nesyamun expressed his wish to be heard in the afterlife.
  — Fox News, 24 Jan. 2020
• In New Zealand, the spirits of the dead leap off the headland at Cape Reinga on their journey to the afterlife.
  — Washington Post, 30 July 2021
• The book tells the story of the titular Mal, who navigates between the world of the living and the afterlife.
  — Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024
• After you get done telling ghost stories, lighten up the mood with this jam about the afterlife.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 28 Oct. 2022
• Freyja, however, is a more warlike goddess, and even has a part in selecting warriors for her hall in the afterlife.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
• The scenes lead to the ultimate one that sees Brown singing into a hanging microphone, wrapped with a red bandana, in the center of what appears to be a celestial stadium in the afterlife.
  — Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 23 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 20 Feb 2025